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Schenectady’S History Skenectada volume i, issue i Fall 2005 A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF Schenectady’s History Skenectada inside this issue: GotWe History? Do! 1661: Arent Van Curler applies for permission to purchase the necessary land from the Indians, and also appeals for a patent from the government, making Schenectady the westernmost settlement of New Netherland; 1690: On the night of Feb. 8, the settlement of Schenectady was attacked by a force of French and Indians from the north.The people were slaughtered and the village burned. Sixty residents were killed and 27 made prisoners; 1792: Western Inland Lock Navigation Company formed by General Philip Schuyler, first inland canal system; 1795: Union College founded based on Dutch principles of Tolerance, first nondenominational college in America; 1798: Schenectady becomes a chartered city; 1809: Schenectady County formed March 7; 1810: John Howard Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home,”graduates from Union College; 1825: Erie Canal opens in Schenectady; 1826: Mohawk & Hudson Railroad chartered, first passenger train in America; 1831: Aug. 3, “DeWitt Clinton,” the first steam locomotive, makes the initial trip over the first passenger line in the U.S. from Crane Street Hill (then known as Prospect Hill), Schenectady, to Lydius Street, Albany.The distance of twelve and a half miles was made in one hour and 45 minutes; 1851: John Ellis and Norris Brothers begin the manufacture of locomotives in Schenectady (Schenectady Locomotive Works); 1862: Clute Brothers builds parts for USS Monitor. Dr. Robert M. Fuller hailed by the medical fraternity of the world as the inventor of tablet forms of medicine, earning for himself the title of “Father of Tablet Triturates”; 1866: George Westinghouse conceived the idea of stopping trains by means of an air brake, while riding from Schenectady to Troy, and invents the air brake; 1886: Edison comes to Schenectady; 1892: General Electric Company formed through a merger with the Edison Electric Light Company and Thomson-Houston Company with Schenectady being made headquarters; 1895: Charles Steinmetz patents a “system of distribution by alternating current” (A/C power) on January 29. 1900: First industrial laboratory for scientific research built in the U.S., in Charles Steinmetz’s backyard; 1903: Largest steam turbine built, a 5000 KW vertical shaft unit installed in Chicago by GE; 1906: Christmas Eve, the world’s first radio broadcast by GE engineer Ernst Alexanderson; 1909: Alco’s Harry Grant won The Vanderbilt Cup. GE’s William Coolidge develops the ductile tungsten filament, the material still used today for light bulbs; 1901: American Locomotive Company formed; 1902: A. F. Knight of Schenectady invented the “Schenectady” golf putter; 1910: First electric range manufactured, the GE Hotpoint electric. ALCO’s 50,000th steam locomotive, a Pacific Type, was shipped. Citizen, George Lunn’s socialist newspaper, begins. ALCO’s Harry Grant wins the Vanderbilt Cup again; 1912: Socialist George Lunn becomes mayor, then lieutenant governor in 1923 as a Democrat. An ALCO truck with five crew made the first transcontinental truck delivery carrying three tons of Parrot Brand Olive Silk Soap.The cross-country trip (4,145 miles) was made in 91 days, arriving at City Hall in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 1912.The start of this trip coincided with a big truck parade and display sponsored by the Philadelphia Inquirer. There were 509 commercial cars of 71 separate makes, ranging in size from mammoth trucks with 13,000-pound capacity down to light delivery of 500-pound capacity. Average speed on the trip was a fraction over 10 mph with 412 hours actually on the road and 776 hours total; 1913: GE develops the hot-cathode high-vacuum X-ray tube; 1915: GE’s Irving Langmuir stabilizes tungsten filament in 1915 by twisting it and using gas in the bulbs (N, then Ar). GE invents Calrod, an electrically insulating heat conductor making electric stoves safer; 1918: GE’s Albert Hull invents magnetron, a key element in radar systems. GE’s Sanford Moss and his supercharger leads to GE’s development of first jet engine; 1920: Dr. Elizabeth Gillette serves as first upstate women elected to NYS Legislature, during the “Red Scare.”First college radio station was WRUC, Union College, which went on the air Oct. 14. Irving Langmuir develops thoriated tungsten filament for radio and power tubes. Steinmetz creates the Steinmetz Electric Car Company. GE develops portable X-ray machine; 1922: Feb. 4, 1922, WGY Schenectady is licensed (goes on air Feb. 20), second commercial NY station. WGY was 2XI in 1912, 12th oldest in US (NYC WJX first in NYS in 1921). Oct. 7, 1922, first chain broadcast accomplished when WJZ and WGY transmitted a World Series game from the field. Ordinary telegraph lines from Newark and Schenectady connected with the polo grounds, where a single microphone connected to these lines completed the requirements. Graham McNamee was the announcer. Kolin Hager, program director and chief announcer at General Electric’s station WGY, considered the Father of Radio Drama. In Sept. 1922, Hager gives a 40-minute weekly time slot on WGY to “The Masque,” a troupe of community-theatre actors from nearby Troy, NY, headed by one Edward H. Smith. As the “WGY Players,” Smith’s company offers condensations of recent stage plays — 43 of them in the first season — and gains national attention for its efforts: the first regular dramatic series ever broadcast on American radio. Among the members of the group are a former stage technician named Frank Oliver: radio’s first true sound effects man. The WGY Players are a fixture at the station for more than a Schenectady is a decade, and in 1928 perform another historic first: the first play ever to be televised; 1923: Charles Steinmetz dies, with nearly 200 patents; 1925: ALCO, along with G.E., builds its first Nobel City diesel electric locomotive. WGY airs Dr. C.W.Woodall’s weekly show on first aid. GE introduces Monitor-top refrigerator, the first hermetically sealed domestic refrigerator, in Schenectady; 1927: Alexanderson staged the first home reception of television at his own home in Schenectady using high-frequency neon lamps and a perforated scanning disc; 1928: Jan. 13, Ernst Alexanderson demonstrates the GE system and announces the beginning of television broadcasting. The pictures were received on sets with 1.5 square inch screens in the homes of Alexanderson (1132 Adams Rd) and two board members in Schenectady. (Some consider this the first home reception of television in the U.S.) The picture, with 48 lines at 16 frames An Ironclad Victory per second, was transmitted over 2XAF on 37.8 meters and the sound was transmitted over WGY.WRGB is born, May 11, 1928. GE begins first regular schedule of TV programming and For Schenectady the world’s first news broadcast. Programs are transmitted Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., using 24 lines, August 1928. World’s first remote TV news takes place on the steps of the Capitol in Albany as Governor Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic nomination for president. He becomes the first man in history whose picture was flashed to the public via the new medium. But the station’s “public” at the time consisted of only four reception sets, one of which was in Dr.Alexanderson’s home, September 11, 1928. The first dramatic program on TV, “The Queen’s Messenger” by W. Somerset Maugham, broadcast to the four TV sets in existence in the Capital District by WRGB; 1930: May 22, an Schenectady’s audience at Proctor’s Theatre in Schenectady becomes the first to see closed-circuit TV projected onto a 7-foot screen. GE puts out first room air conditioner. ALCO designs and Gastronomical manufactures the tunnel shields used for digging of the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River, connecting New Jersey and Manhattan. GE places the first electric washing machine on the market; 1932: Irving Langmuir wins Nobel Prize “for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry”; 1935: The first radio tube to be made of metal History announced in Schenectady.Alco builds the “Hiawatha,”the first streamlined locomotive produced in America. It had a sustained speed of 100 MPH and a top speed of 120 MPH. First food waste disposer: the Disposall (GE). GE helps invent fluorescent lamp. E.W. Kestner’s Water Drops photograph becomes part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Kestner lived at 204 Elmer and was president of the Schenectady Photographic Society. First major league night baseball game is played in Crosley Field, Cincinnati, Ohio, under GE Lighting Novalux lamps; 1936: The GE Juice-o-Mat, “A-la-carte” table cooker, Portable Mixer, Hotpoint automatic roaster, and the Dorchester coffeemaker introduced into the home; 1939: June, the arrival of the King and Queen of England, transmitted from New York to Schenectady, marks the first network TV broadcast. Nov. 10, WRGB starts broadcasting. 1940: Nov. 20, W2XOY (FM) Schenectady (GE) begins transmitting on a regular schedule, according to an article in FM, Jan. 1941. NBC begins relaying telecasts to the GE station in Schenectady, thus forming TV’s first “network.”Feb. 1, TV’s first quiz show,“Spelling Bee,”on WRGB. Proctor’s shows film “Edison the Man,”starring Spencer Tracy. GE’s Eugene Rochow invents direct process for making silicones. GE’s Katharine Blodgett invents nonreflecting “invisible” glass, used today on almost all camera lenses and optical devices; 1941: July 17, W47A Schenectady (first independent commercial FM station). Dec. 8, Time reports first FM net: W71NY New York, W2XMN Alpine, W53PH Philadelphia, W65H Hartford, W43B near Boston,W39B Mt.Washington,W47A Schenectady. GE invents first US jet engine, the I-A; 1942: ALCO produces the M-7 Tank Killer; 1943: Dec.
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